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Yes, the files are all on the drive. Even if I can't actually see them when I open their partition in the Finder, I can locate their icons in Searchlight. But I can't open them until after I first unmount then remount the partition they are on. I never receive a message like unexpected device...

What I have discovered since my original post is that the files are all fine on the drive. What is happening is that the partitions are somehow unmounting themselves even though their icons remain on the desktop. If I go into Disk Utility and unmount then quickly remount a partition, it shows up...

Yes, all the partitions mount fine. I partitioned the drive with Disk Utility right out of the box, all formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Even when particular files disappear, the partitions on which they are located all seem to be mounted and accessible.

I recently bought a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent Pro drive that I have partitioned 14 ways and hooked up via a firewire 400 connection to my eMac G4 1.0GHz running OS X 10.4.11. I use four of the 60GB partitions to store music files in several different folders. My problem is this: Frequently after...